Ch 20, Page 40

I hate delays, so I am shamed by this one. Had to re-script and re-do this one. (Colorizing after a brief rest). I’m sorry that Hitomi just kind of got thrown into the characer equation, I know at least one person told me it might totally screw up the character dynamics if I age Goro and Aki a couple of decades in solitude, maybe even moreso if I throw a daughter into the equation.

Of course, that’s kind of what I’m going for: nobody’s getting out of Chapter 20 unscathed. Sarin got put in a very desperate place, Mori’s lost all her color, Kili’s got one more emotional wound now that she’s been attacked by her own patient, and now this. (And it’s not over yet!)

Discussion (11) ¬

Hey, characters that don’t change at all are no fun in the long run.
That’s what I always liked about The Three Investigators for example. The guys actually grew up over the course of the books. Learned new skills, got and dropped a hobby or two, found girlfriends, got a drivers license where originally they only had their bikes and adult friends driving them…

That’s where a series really gets interesting! If everyone always stays the same, it gets dull with time.

why would it have to be Aki and Goro? Because Hitomi is more likely to live longer if she’s the one inside waiting? I don’t get how Amy’s anomaly will help them with anything? How can she perceive an anomaly? Why couldn’t they push Amy through the boundary slowly given that she’s a crystal person?

Yes Hitomi WOULD have a chance at still being alive by the time they switched it off. Amy’s anomaly effects how she physically experiences time, but it is a temporal anomaly, therefore effects the flow of time in a local area, kinda like the machine is doing, if they can counter the effects for someone, that person could pass through and deactivate the machine. You can perceive it’s effects when its doing something, in this state, the anomaly can’t do anything, therefore any tweaking would be done blind, and they could do more harm than good

The script rewrite? Totally justified. Everything fits here. Yes, Hitomi definitely takes after Aki. I remember when Aki yelled at Goro the same way. Even called her a “violator.” And was then immediately apologetic, just like Hitomi is now. Beautiful story, keep it going, we’ll wait.